It started when I was eight I got a Honda 50 that I road in the mountain roads of Santa Cruz, CA. At the age of ten I landed an old Honda 90 and as soon as I got it home I stripped it down and gave it a rattle can paint job and put it back together, man was I proud. By the time I turned twelve I had gathered enough parts from friends and the dump I built my first ground up custom dirt bike, it ran like a champ. I remember I used a section of my mom's vacuum cleaner pipe for the exhaust, she was not impressed but my passion was alive. From that moment on all I wanted to do was wrench on bikes.

    I joined the Marine Corps when I was seventeen and  after four years I got out. My desire was still to work on motorcycles so I took a course in motorcycle repair. I earned my certificate in September 1983 and set out to find a job as a motorcycle mechanic. Back then motorcycles were not as popular as they are today and I had no luck all the jobs in my area were filled.

   Disappointed in my failure I decided to go back in the Marine Corps and became an aircraft mechanic on KC-130's, it wasn't motorcycles but I was a mechanic and that satisfied me for the time being. In 1984 Darcy my wife and I were married and in October of 1987 we were transferred to Okinawa Japan for six years. In 1990 while in Okinawa I started a Harley Davidson motorcycle club named the Far East Knights. I found myself doing allot of the wrenching on my members bikes. I realized then I was filling my passion and at the same time building my experience in Harley Davidson's.  So for the next three years I serviced and installed do dads for my club members.

    In 1993 we were transferred to Cherry Point North Carolina. My reputation as a bike mechanic followed and before I knew it I was wrenching once again and I started a small business that I named The Bike Doctor (that is Indian for the man who fixes bikes). After the second year in business I soon became overwhelmed with my Marine responsibilities and my business. Having only a few years left before retirement I focused on my career until October of 1998 when I retired from the Marine Corps as a Master Sergeant.  I had continued wrenching on bikes not as a business but more as hobby until the beginning of 2004.

    Darcy also my partner and I never lost the desire to have our own motorcycle business and so in November 2004 we decided to once again open our own business. We found a lawyer and began the processes of incorporating. When it came time to decide on the name we tossed around several but kept coming back to The Bike Doctor, Inc. (that is Indian for the man who fixes bikes who is now incorporated). I get to focus my attention in the service department and Darcy handles all the day to day administrative stuff. Its been a long ride but we have arrived.

Thank You for your support    

Ron and Darcy Alves